By AFP Witnesses in Durban, South Africa, say six people of Ethiopian origin have been killed in alleged xenophobic attacks over the past week. Yonas Fikru, an Ethiopian businessman in Durban, says he knew all six victims, all of them men in their 20s who he says used to hang out at his shop. He
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Around 4.5 million Ethiopians could be in need of food aid because of a drought in the country, the UN has said. Hardest-hit areas are Ethiopia’s eastern Afar and southern Somali regions, while pastures and water resources are also unusually low in central and eastern Oromo region, and northern Tigray and Amhara districts. Reacting to
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An Ansarullah security official said on Friday that the country’s intelligence and popular forces have arrested a Saudi-linked group of Ethiopian men who attempted to sneak into the capital, Sana’a, in women’s clothing to carry out terrorist attacks. “The Yemeni intelligence forces alongside the popular committees identified and arrested a terrorist band affiliated to the
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An asylum seeker has been discovered alive in the hold of a plane that landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport on Friday morning, after smuggling himself on to an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa. The stowaway was found after the plane landed in Sweden just before 7am. The flight time for journeys between Addis Ababa
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AFP: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Wednesday put to death two Ethiopians and a Saudi convicted of murder, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 113. The Ethiopians, Argawi Aldo Heilan Meriam and Hadish Zel Alam, had been convicted of beating a fellow countryman to death and robbing him, the Interior Ministry said
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AFP: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Wednesday put to death two Ethiopians and a Saudi convicted of murder, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 113. The Ethiopians, Argawi Aldo Heilan Meriam and Hadish Zel Alam, had been convicted of beating a fellow countryman to death and robbing him, the Interior Ministry said
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CAIRO: Egypt has deported 45 Ethiopians who arrived in Cairo after fleeing the war-torn Libya, Youm7 reported Thursday. The Ethiopians reportedly arrived on board of a private plane coming from Tobruk airport after coordination with Egyptian authorities. Egyptian officials and diplomats from the Ethiopian embassy in Cairo received the Ethiopian returnees, who headed to Addis
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BY ELIAS MESERET, AP METEMA, Ethiopia — The mood in the border town of Metema these days is quiet and watchful. Dozens of houses on the hot, dusty main road that stretches from Ethiopia into Sudan look like they have been hastily closed. Guards grimly patrol the border, stopping anyone who looks like an illegal
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(KHARTOUM) – The Saudi government was concerned that the case of 35 Ethiopians detained by authorities would be viewed as one that is religiously motivated, a cable from the Saudi foreign ministry reveals. The cable published by the whistleblower site Wikileaks on Friday stated that the Saudi Crown Prince at the time Prince Nayef Bin
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CAIRO: The Ministry of Youth will host 100 young Ethiopian men and women for a camp held in Cairo in September in the framework of Egypt’s strategy to strengthen ties with Nile Basin states, Youm 7 reported Monday. The camp’s program includes cultural sightseeing activities in Cairo and Alexandria; most notably visiting the Giza pyramids,
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